The Press: Knox Explains

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who has often adjured the press not
to give away secrets, finally told correspondents why one of his own
magazine articles let a cat out of a bag.

Newsmen had long wanted to know how the Secretary explained the
fact that an article by him in Collier's last August broke the news that
a U.S. observer was aboard the American-built Catalina flying boat
that spotted the Nazi battleship Bismarck and called the British fleet
to the kill.

The explanation was simple: the article was ghostwritten and the
Secretary had never even looked...